A liberal group launched an online petition Friday demanding that potential secretary of State nominee Susan Rice divest herself of every dollar of stock in the Canadian company seeking approval for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline to the Gulf Coast.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations owns between $300,000 and $600,000 in TransCanada Corp. stock, according to her financial disclosure forms. The pipeline needs approval from the State Department before it can go forward.

The revelation has opened Rice up to criticism from environmentalists at a time when several Senate Republicans have vowed to oppose her because of her early statements about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.

Green groups are pressing the White House to require that any nominee for the position divest themselves of any stock in TransCanada or other oil sands companies.

It's indefensible that Rice has millions of dollars invested in oil companies and banks that will make huge profits if the State Department gives approval to the XL pipeline, reads the petition from RootsAction.org, which claims almost 200,000 members.

As a high-ranking administration official  and a potential replacement for Hillary Clinton early next year to run the State Department  Susan Rice shouldn't have any stake in corporations that are doing all they can to plunder tar sands in Canada and send carbon emissions soaring even faster.

Rice is still seen as the favorite to get the nomination because of her close ties to President Obama since serving as his senior foreign policy adviser during the 2008 campaign.

She failed to change the minds of her Republican opponents during a two-day visit to Capitol Hill this week, however, setting up a bitter confirmation fight if Obama nominates her to replace Hillary Clinton.

I’ve become convinced that Susan Rice was never intended to be the nominee for Secretary of State. Instead, she was sent out to take the flak while the administration quietly prepares to submit someone who would be even worse for the country. John Kerry? Maybe, but right now I’d expect someone even worse.

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posted on 11/30/2012 8:58:29 AM PST
by newheart
(The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)

Her family was well-off. Her father was a Cornell professor and one of the governors of the Federal Reserve Board and held a number of other important positions, and her mother was an upper-tier academic.

Of course, she’s parlayed this into greater wealth. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s clear that Obama doesn’t believe that’s okay for anybody else outside of his aparatchik circle.

Rush mentioned this yesterday. Stating that this is the first step in her being thrown under the bus by Broncho Bahma. No Secretary of State job. Probably kicked out of her job as the first Cabinet Level Ambassadorship. She probably wants to spend more time with her fambly.

And the concerns of the mentally ill who support them is only a problem to the propagandists they employ to run interference for them.

For example, using her position to aid Soros’s investment portfolio is not corruption, its her reason for being in office. If she can help her own, its only corruption if she gets caught and the paid propagandists can’t drown it out with attacks on Bush.

Does anyone think O isn’t going to retire from office with a few hundred million in his various accounts? With the Clintons as a model, they left their decades of life on the public payroll with several hundred millions that we know about, and the paid press have completely accepted their explanations of where it all came from without any detectable curiousity. O will do the same with the same results.

I hear that Rice’s husband works for an oil company and that is part of the reason that she was picked to go and lie to the public. The Obama administration knew that she could not withstand another nomination battle and that even the Democrat greens were wouldn’t support her.

Rice’s background is so checkered that there is actually no way she was even competent for this position as UN Ambassador. She did exactly the same thing at the time of the Kenya bombings (when she was theoretically responsible for that area of Africa under Clinton) that she’s doing now - deny and obfuscate.

Although she tries hard to protect AQ, I don’t think her parents are Muslims. But she’s from a very well off and well-connected family. Her parents were upper level academics very involved in US policy, and her father was one of the Governors of the Federal Reserve. I’m not sure they’re both black - or if they were, they were extremely light-skinned, because Rice barely looks black.

However, she staked her claim in progressivist politics, and while she was not herself smart or aggressive enough to get ahead, she, like the supposed feminist icon Hillary, has dedicated her life to protecting these important progressivist males (Bill Clinton and Obama). She really doesn’t care if he throws her under the bus.

Ive become convinced that Susan Rice was never intended to be the nominee for Secretary of State. Instead, she was sent out to take the flak while the administration quietly prepares to submit someone who would be even worse for the country. John Kerry? Maybe, but right now Id expect someone even worse.

It's not going to be Romney, is it?

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posted on 11/30/2012 4:43:18 PM PST
by fanfan
("But if Muslims were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")

I read that she alone is worth $32 million. I don’t know who her husband is or what he does, but I’d bet the both of them are worth a lot more than that.

This is the woman that Obama was presenting as a poor, harrassed, picked-upon little black girl who couldn’t possibly be expected to know if what she was saying made any sense whatsoever...heck, maybe she should redo her hair in pickaninny braids and dance out onto the stage in her rags. That’s Obama’s image of American blacks (because, of course, he’s not one of them).

These people are all connected. They all seem to lead to...Bill Clinton, as protected by his lovely wife Hillary.

At the same time, I don’t think Bill is totally in control of Obama. The few practical things that Obama does (when he has to act like a grown-up and agree with the GOP on something) are clearly at the hand of Bill. But Obama is much more ideological, whether leftist or islamist, than Bill. For Bill Clinton, it was all about Bill, and he was willing to do anything that he thought would make him look good.

For Obama, who knows what it’s about? Obviously, all about him, but he sees himself as the representative or annointed one of some ideology (I’m not sure if it’s islamism or marxism,though) and not as just a fat tomcat (Bill Clinton) who always lands on his feet.

But Hillary is still out there cleaning up messes for both of them. Bizarre beyond belief.

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